Re: Simple problem using texexec to combine pdfs

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:24 10/11/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>i am rather new to ConTeXt but i had to try it after i met Hans in a 
>little workshop about his system in Darmstadt this year. Thanks again for 
>the insights Hans :-) Now i found out that texexec is also a pretty nice 
>tool for combining single pdf files into one. So i tried:
>
>texexec --pdfcombine --combination=1*1 --result=felix.pdf *.pdf
>
>to combine all pdfs in the wd to felix.pdf. That's working fine besides 
>the fact that a footnote is added to each page containing the file name 
>and the date. That's maybe pretty handy sometimes but not for me at the 
>moment. I checked the texexec manpages and the manual but i did not find 
>the right command/switch to do it. May be i'm just missing some rooky 
>stuff. Could someone help me out here?
>BTW: I'm using the latest TeXlive installation on RedHat.
>
>Best regards
>   Martin
>
>P.S.: I know that i could change the temporary texexec.tex by hand and 
>rerun that file. But that's a bit to clumsy for such a sophisticated 
>system, isn't it?

as an alternative use exampler.rb + combine.pdf and you have more control

Hans